The wait is over! Kanye West unveiled the first photo of his daughter with Kim Kardashian Friday on Kris Jenner‘s talk show, Kris.

“To stop all the noise, I thought it’d be really cool, on her grandmother’s season finale, to bring a picture of North,” West said. The photo, which West took himself, shows baby North resting on Kardashian’s towel-covered shoulder, reaching toward the camera.

“She has Kim’s eyes and Kanye’s cheeks,” Jenner said of her granddaughter. “I pray she looks like her mother when she is older,” added West, 36.

North was born on June 12, making her just 10 weeks old. “When my daughter was first born people asked me ‘How do you feel, is everything different?’” West said during his interview with Jenner. “No not really, not everything is that different. It takes time to understand you met a brand new person.”

Having a baby has changed West’s outlook on life, he said. “I was just a crazy rock star,” he said. “Now I have two really special people to live for, a whole family to live for, a whole world to live for … My only goal as a dad is to protect my daughter, that’s my instinct to give my daughter as many opportunities to just be a child.”

Still, one parenting duty is tripping him up. “I’m supposed to be this muscial genius and everything and I can’t really work the car seat that well,” he said.

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West also opened up about his feelings for the mother of his child, 32, who he began dating in the spring of 2012. “I was so in awe of her, she was my dream girl,” he said. “I was in love with her before I could ever talk to her.”

He also made a point of defending the authenticity of his relationship, which is the constant subject of tabloid coverage. “I could have people saying, ‘This is going to damage your credibility as an artist or as a designer.’ And I say, you know, ‘I don’t care, I love this woman,’” he said. “Or someone could say, ‘when the paparazzi surround you, everyone knows you don’t like paparazzi, so why would you be with this person?’ And I’m saying, ‘I’m being with this person because I love this person.’ She’s worth it to me,” he added.

The studio audience cheered when West said that his grandfather, who recently passed away, taught him that life isn’t about money or fame, but about joy. “[Kim] is my joy, and she brought my joy into this world, and there’s no paparazzi and there’s no blog comment that’s going to take that joy from me.”